Our Research Students
HIGHER DEGREE BY RESEARCH (HDR) STUDENTS
Fawzia Alosaimy
Thesis Title: Exploring the Use of Snapchat in Family Life in Saudi Arabia
Supervisory Panel: Glen Fuller, Sora Park, Scott Bridges
Contact: Fawzia.Alosaimy@canberra.edu.au
@Fawzia_Rashdan
Dan Andrew
RTP Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Selling the Audience: The role of advertisers in the audience marketplace
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Glen Fuller
Contact: Dan.Andrew@canberra.edu.au
Nabeela Asghar
Thesis Title: Youth and Hate Speech: Role of Religious Leadership in Shia-Sunni Conflict
Supervisory Panel: Mathieu O’Neil, Tahmina Rashid
Contact: Nabeela.Asghar@canberra.edu.au
Sue Atkinson
Thesis Title: This research project is located in the field of strategic communications. It is focused on government crisis communication, specifically how governments engage with citizens using digital communication media and how citizens understand and 'trust' (or not) that communication and whether and/or how they act on it
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Barbara Walsh, Jee Young Lee
Contact: Sue.Atkinson@canberra.edu.au@SusanAt16664799
Saffron Bianchi-Howden
Thesis Title: Reducing the impact of disinformation and misinformation: Innoculation vs factchecking
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Caroline Fisher, Jee Young Lee
Contact: Saffon.Bianchi-Howden@canberra.edu.au@saffronhowden
Xiaolan Cai
Thesis Title: Open source smart city projects and impacts on civic engagement in Australia
Supervisory Panel: Mathieu O’Neil, Barbara Norman
Contact: Xiaolan.Cai@canberra.edu.au@XiaolanSharon
Mona Chatskin
N&MRC HDR Representative
RTP Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Malka Leifer in News Landscapes: Community engagement with mainstream and religious media practice in cases of alleged Jewish institutional child sex abuse in Australia
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, David Nolan
Contact: Mona.Chatskin@canberra.edu.au
Paul Conroy
Thesis Title: The Media's Role in the Politics of Contemporary Serious Police Misconduct in Australia
Supervisory Panel: David Nolan, Kate Holland, Kerry McCallum
Contact: Paul.Conroy@canberra.edu.au@pabloabc123
Emma John
‘Breaking Silences’ Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Different Voices: A critical discourse analysis of the ABC's coverage of Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Caroline Fisher
Contact: Emma.John@canberra.edu.au
Lidia Kelly
RTP Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Capturing Crimea: Challenges and Constraints for Foreign Correspondents in Contemporary Territorial Conflicts
Supervisory Panel: David Nolan, Caroline Fisher, Kerry McCallum, Peter Putnis
Contact: Lidia.Kelly@canberra.edu.au@LidKelly
Natalie Larkins
Thesis Title: Disconnect Between Normative Ideals of Journalism and Practice in Australia
Supervisory Panel: Caroline Fisher, Kerry McCallum, David Nolan
Contact: Natalie.Larkins@canberra.edu.au
Lilik Mardjianto
Thesis Title: Mapping and Analysis of Disinformation and Fact-Checking in Indonesia
Supervisory Panel: Caroline Fisher, Kerry McCallum, Jee Young Lee
Contact: Lilik.Mardjianto@canberra.edu.au
Kania Mayastika
Thesis Title: Designing Culturally Appropriate ESP Materials for Political Science Students in Indonesia
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Maya Gunawardena
Contact: Kania.Mayastika@canberra.edu.au@majestykania
Nadrah Nadrah
Thesis Title: The Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Teacher Professional Education Program (TPEP) for English Teachers in Indonesia
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Caroline Fisher, Yoonmo Sang
Contact: Nadrah.Nadrah@canberra.edu.au
Anji Perera
RTP Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Connecting the drops - connecting communities: beyond the boundaries of water literacy
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Mathieu O’Neil, Ross Thompson, Thomas Mollenkopf
Contact: Anji.Perera@canberra.edu.au@Anji_perera
Shara Ranasinghe
Thesis Title: Enhancing Patient-centred Cancer Communication during cancer treatment
Supervisory Panel: Kate Holland, Kasia Bail, Sora Park
Contact: Shara.Ranasinghe@canberra.edu.au@SharaRanasinghe
Prue Robson
Thesis Title: Positioning Canberra: the effectiveness of place image communications in attracting residents to places facing unfavourable stereotypes
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Cathy Hope, James Mahoney
Contact: Prue.Robson@canberra.edu.au@pruerobson
Sonya Sandham
Thesis Title: It’s not noise: Employee voices in organisational discourses in an era of digital disruption
Supervisory Panel: Glen Fuller, Cathy Hope
Contact: Sonya.Sandham@canberra.edu.au@sonyasandham
Jing Su
N&MRC Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Talking to a Bot is a turn off: users experiences of chatbot communication
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Jee Young Lee
Contact: Jing.Su@canberra.edu.au
Hang Tran
Thesis Title: Coverage of closing the gap framework’s implementation on major news sites in Australia 2008-2017
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Sora Park, Wendy Somerville
Contact: Hang.Tran@canberra.edu.au
Kathleen Veteri
Thesis Title: Negative Partisanship in Journalistic Reporting Relating to the 2019 Australian Federal Election
Supervisory Panel: Glen Fuller, Caroline Fisher
Contact: u3174096@canberra.edu.au
Danyi Wang
Thesis Title: Negotiating and Integrating Sociocultural Identities Among Chinese Immigrants in Australia
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Susan Thwaites
Contact: Danyi.Wang@canberra.edu.au
Shengnan Yao
Thesis Title: This research is focused on the multilingual users' trust in news media. And it will discuss how the language preference for multilingual audience in Australia when they consuming news, and how does that will influence their trust in news
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Caroline Fisher
Contact: Pinker.Yao@canberra.edu.au@pinker_yao